Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-23

MOhNANo hVOhs CLObs
Roswell Z. Flower, short, stout and
good natured, is member of the Elk.
4 change Club. He Is worth several mil
Il lions and has been mentioned at various
n times as possible candidate for Mayor.
Governor and President.
Levi Z. Morton, eX-Minister to France,
Il is another member OF the club. He is
worth $1,000 900, has open, hearty man
#rers, entirely without ostentatiOn, and is
very popular. PIerpont Morgan. of the
e Banking firm OF DreXel, Morgan & Co.
who manage a sort of half-orphan asylum
Dor weak railroads, is another member.
He Is worth S2.0C0.0G0. Henry Clews is
still another. He is worth about 81. 900 :
900. He made $1,000. 600 last wear IN his
& brokerage and banking business. II was
asked to become candidate for Mayor OF
New York last fall but declined, as he
had declined Cabinet positions and the
custom house under Grant. HAYES and
Garfield. He owns box at the MetropOi-
itan Opera House, when cost him $50.
900. 1t gives him one s'xtv-ffth in terest
in that gorgeous temple of song. His pic
lures. which inc ude eXamplesbY Cofot,
Rousseau and Daubignv, cost aim 500.
600, of which $4,000 was paid for the por-
trait OF the fnancieI'5 wife. one of the
most beautiful and accomplished ladies
Of New York. 1t was painted by B. C.
Porter, of Boston, and both as a likeness
and as a work of art is considered one Of
the finest examples of pOrtrailure in this
country. The Hon. Russell Sage is one
of the mem bers OF the Exchange Club,
but has not yet been seen there. 1t is
rather amusing to learn that Mr.. Sage
belongs to club. His tastes are as SIM
pie as those OF an old farmer. He is now
worth $40, 100000. He lost 50, 600. 600 in
puts In the great panic OF 1884. l have
heard that Jay Gould got most OF the
$3,000,000 himself, after having patted
Uncle Russell ton the back and encouraged
him to sell ptts, saying: $50 in, Sage,
and sell them. This country is all right"
l do not vOuch for this story bat Jaw
Gould is credited with penetration enough
TO have seen the storm that was coming
though the cloud on the com mercial hori-
zon was barely as big as mans hand
1t seems he practically vent short bv
buying puts. If be served Mr.. Sage, his
supposed ally, in this fashion, it was
surely the unklndest cut OF all. Wall
street laughs over this story, and also
over another, TO the effect that on one &C.
casion Jay Gould was largely short OF a
certain stock on rapidly rising market,
but was saved from heavy loss by his
suave lieutenant, WASH Conner. who,
1t is said, went to Russell Sage and fright
ened him into selling the large block
Wnlco ne nelu DV telluR u OOIelUl bJOfv OF
the prospects of the stock. Any one who
isaware of Dir. COnnor's eXuberant fancy,
OF his talent for sustained flights OF ar
tistic fiction, will be tempted TO believe
this story, with the addition that Uncle
RnsselI's stock went at once into Gould's
Office through the prompt efforts At a
crowd of brokers whom Conner had lying
innyait for it as boys eager 10 rob an old
farmers apple orchard. Tradition adds,
Of course, that when the Hon. Russell
SAGE found that, so to SPEAK, his pocket
had been picked in the Stock Exchange
hewaxed esgoth.